King Crimson - The Sheltering Sky: guitar & oud

[muhrvis]

Sounds marvellous! Awesome, thanks!

[nesso011]

WOW¡ what an amzing job playing this song. It sounds really weird, but still marvelous

[thrip]

Go to the elephant talk site, there's quite a good transcription there.

[pootsilu]

Please Make a tutorial or tell me the chords on the guitar!! Please Please PLEASE!!

[serjikk25]

Your skill deserves to play this whole song, but there can only be one Fripp I suppose...

[kasparrussi]

this is perhaps my favorite crimson´s song, at least i remember how grabbed i got by it since the very first time e listened to it.

your version is beautiful and inspiring, isn't it all about it? congrats.

[thrip]

@kasparrussi Thanks! The whole album is amazing and has been a big influence on me.

[vuotopiuscuro]

not bad .. ,-)

[TerrySleeper]

My favourite King Crimson track - and you play it so well.

Nive one, sir!

[soulfunksounds]

great great great...that oud is fantastic

[haimcito]

what a lovely version, you should play with KC.

[ToPcz]

I loooove the arangements and sounds and colours and atmosphere.... please post longer version :)

[thrip]

@ToPcz thanks for your nice comment!

[raymondpeckiii]

The guitar part is a bit too strummy for my taste, but still very good. Love how the oud part captures the spirit of the original synth-guitar part. One of my top 5 KC songs. I'd love to hear a complete version. Thanks!

[2simontemplar]

well done and inspiring!

Perhaps you´d like to play/ post a longer version?

[marcobandini1]

That is a really good version! Beautyfull sound of your lute

[thrip]

@marcobandini1 thanks a lot!

[Nullifidian]

Nicely played! I think Paul Bowles would approve.

[thrip]

@Nullifidian Thanks! nice literary allusion.

[Lightmane321]

I hope you'll do more King Crimson music. I'd love to see Matte Kudesai, One Time, Walking On Air, I Talk to the Wind... eh... that's good for now. : )

[alkh0bani]

tune your oud!!!!

[2simontemplar]

@alkh0bani The oud IS tuned but he immitates what A. Belew plays on his guitar with lots of effects. Listen to the original!

[bluntobject07]

I don't have really any experience listening to oud, so I don't know if I can comment on it's tuning accurately, but it does sound a little flat relative to the guitar.

That being said, I think this is an amazing idea and performance, and I would love to hear more of this kind of combination. Keep it up!

[ChestTat]

this is the most original video of a song I've seen on here for quite sometime, cheers! maybe do discipline with the same setup lol

[thrip]

Thanks for your comment! I'll upload discipline. Just give me about 20 years :-)

[baskesis]

Very nice work.

[superchang847]

id love to see what you could do with 21st century schizoid man.

[Lyktwz]

Very good, very odd...

The King Crimson's spirit..

[TheGMan13]

Love this!

[501frenchvbs]

Well done, I really love the soft, melodic and haunting sound of the oud, especially when it's used in this context :)

[thrip]

Thanks!

[deaucey]

what are you using as a pick?

[thrip]

The pick used on the oud is called a risha. Traditionally an eagle quill, these days made out of plastic!

[deaucey]

thanks for letting me know.

[mediocrefunkybeat]

I love re-arrangements and to use an Oud is something I must commend you for. Although the intonation on the Oud is out in a couple of places, the idea is fantastic and well executed.

[thrip]

Thanks for your comments!

[abw007]

Just beautiful. Perfectly captures the spookiness of the piece.

[fryBASS]

cool man!

[crackear2611035]

i think that king crimson would like your idea it´s very creative

[thrip]

Thanks - it's a nice compliment!

[Glimmung]

Perfect.

[Miskapa]

Wow! This is incredible! The "oud" is wery odd... What are the chords for this?

[pyroseed13]

Wow that was fantastic! That's a neat little instrument you have there.

[Xiphosss]

You are incredible ! I like your Oud !!!

[hyperboreal]

King Crimson on a Selmer-style guitar and oud, that's what I called innovative! Lucky to find this extravaganza on YouTube off one of the few really creative and groundbreaking albums of the eighties. Don't cool off with those posts! :)

[thrip]

Thanks for the nice comment!